From The Great Sea Horse by Isabel Anderson, 1909.

From The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, illustrated by T. Seccombe, 1870.

Here's a precursor to the manga character Naruto, from Two Little Savages by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1922.

From The Illustrated Christian Martyrology by C. Sparry, 1854.

Embers by Maurine Hathaway, 1910.

From The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, 1837.

From Ward Seminary's Iris yearbook, 1912.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"Light-fingered," from Hood's Own by Thomas Hood, 1855.

This is Marquette's Monster, a.k.a. Lennipinja or Man-Cat of the Peorias and Illinois, a.k.a. Micibisi of the Northern tribes.  The Chippewa name is Michibichi, the spirit panther "god of the waters" or "the manito of the waters and the fishes."  The Shawnese clan name is "Manetuwi Msi-pessi," a "'celestial tiger,' i.e. a meteor or shooting star.  The manetuwi msi-pessi lives in water only, and is visible not as an animal, but as a shooting star.  But the activities of this manito are not confined to the water.  He corresponds to the 'Fire Dragon' of other mythologies; and when they see a meteor, the old Miamis say that it is Lennipinja going from one sea to another" (Indiana and the Indianans by Jacon Piatt Dunn, 1919).

From The War Cry, 1908.

"For even things lost in a house abide, like forgotten sorrows and incipient dreams, and many household things are of purely sentimental value ....  In the equal light of disinterested scrutiny such things are not themselves.  They are transformed into pure object, and are horrible, and must be burned."  —Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

From The Ranche on the Oxhide by Henry Inman, 1913.